Why is UL ranked ahead of UK?

[CondorCat]

They earned some (undeserved) respect last year in a weak ACC.

They came into the UK game ranked #9 with a 10-1 record and a win over Notre Dame. Then the wheels came off losing the Governor's Cup, ACC Championship game, and Holiday Bowl.

 

[BigBlueManSouthCentralKY]

Talk is Brohm > White and Hamdan combined.

 

[VikingCat21]

For those correctly pointing out UL's cupcake schedule, you also have to realize the 3 "good" teams on their schedule are 3 of the perennially most overrated teams each year. Clemson, ND, and Miami haven't been good in a while but always get the preseason hype.

 

[satcheluk]

Then why do sec teams with more losses get a higher final regular season playoff seed then 1 loss teams from pac10, Big12 or Acc?

Uk has won the UL game 6 of last 7 times…and many of those have been blood baths for Uk. Yo has had I’d argue 3 disappointing seasons going into UL snd whooped them even when a poor season was behind them

Why we’d not be favored when we bring back a ton more is beyond reason

Polls don't seed the CFP, a committee does and they heavily weigh strength of schedule, home vs road wins, squeakers vs blow outs and even if key players were out due to injury and whether that helped with an upset win or caused an upset loss. Pre season polls have no parameters, so some people vote on who they think would win a neutral site game one and others vite as to which team they feel will finish the season higher or lower. Without parameters, they ar emeaningless preseason discussion topics.

 

[Tf2217]

To the average person I could make the argument that we play a hell of a lot tougher schedule than they do, and thus looking at it from the outside you could easily come up with the theory that UL will win quite a few games. If you win games you're ranked.

It's a take that makes sense if you completely ignore the fact that we smack them back to reality every year. There's a reason the 6-6/7-5 SEC gets the 2nd or 3rd ACC team in the music City bowl. Because #2 in the SEC is bama. The #2 team in the ACC is who Clemson? GA Tech? Miami? UNC? 🥱🥱🥱. We should've beat Clemson (don't deserve to beat anyone while committing 4 straight turnovers) I don't think they wanted UGA, LSU or anyone like that

Oh well let them have their cupcakes and good record I like smacking around top 10 teams.